Caleb briefly considered rummaging through the ground level cabinets for breakfast until he heard Mikey smack the car horn outside and realized he had no appetite or time for it anyway. He got his notably heavier book bag and went to the car, wondering how on Earth he was going to drive them to school if the car was proportionally over-sized as everything else in his imposing new world, and when he found out, it was almost as much a surprise as his initial take of this world had been. Almost.
A half-dozen small but thick books had been crudely tied in a stack to each of the pedals, with several more on the seat as height-boosters. Caleb’s brother looked at him expectantly from across the driver’s seat in the passenger’s side, waiting for him to jump up and be the chauffeur. Caleb slowly did so, climbing up a stack including Ivanhoe and War And Peace to sit on a few encyclopedia volumes, but all Caleb could think blankly for ten straight seconds was that there was no way this could possibly work.
In fact, it did work, but even as he pulled in to the parking lot between their respective schools and his brother bailed out with a glancing “bye,” he couldn’t have said how. It was like some instinct had driven him to go through the motions naturally, no pun intended. He’d had no trouble navigating the wheel twice the size of a hula hoop or the turn signal the length of a walking stick. Even as he’d pushed down abnormally hard on the books to break and accelerate, he still found the feeling strangely familiar. That worried him, but Caleb eventually put it out of his mind- he’d think about it later. He didn’t want to get comfy in this world as a runt.
He needed to talk to someone about it, and the one he wanted to talk to the most right now was his girlfriend and lover, Karen. He walked through the teeming mass of tall people, trying to ignore a couple of rude snickers, comments and glances from the 17-foot monsters, and found her right where her usual clique resided before the first bell, just beside and outside the front doors.
She had never looked so sexy.
Her uniform had always had a way of accentuating her chest with admirable detail, but the creature she had become was another matter entirely. Her arms and calves were toned to a perfect balance, being defined and well-developed without being over-sized or bulky. Her thighs stood out as strong and broad without being overblown, and a modest set of abs could be seen with a squint through the rather thin school-mandated uniform shirt- all of which were accompanied by an IMmodestly huge, perky, athletic set of breasts. If they hadn’t been on a body with such astounding musculature, Caleb would’ve said they looked like they were too large to carry.
She was hanging out with several other Amazonian girls Caleb recognized only by face. One of them pointed Caleb out to Karen. (This girl seemed to make a comment of which Caleb didn't hear much, only "...looking at you.") When it became clear she couldn't ignore you without being rude, she turned and gave an awkward grin.
"Uh... Can I help you with something?"
"Hey, Karen. Do you remember me?"
"Pardon me, but is there some reason I should? And how do you know my name?"
Caleb's smile faltered. "Yeah... I'm Caleb. I'm your boyfriend, we were going out."
Karen's little clique of girlfriends burst into tittering, stifled giggles at this. Karen herself had a little more poise, and she covered her mouth as she huffed out a quick chuckle. Then she saw how seriously Caleb was looking at her.
"Look... ah, Caleb? I'm sorry, but I think I'd remember going out with you. You kind of... stand out."
At this, the Karen's giggling friends gave up on subtlety and burst into full laughter. Caleb's heart sunk in his chest. Comments about an inter-dimensional being changing reality around him weren't going to exactly bolster trust.
"Look, Karen... I know this is weird. I get it. But you've gotta believe me- up until last night, when the… when things changed, we were dating, and I can prove-"
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING! At that point, the bell went off for first class. Karen's posse gave their scattered goodbyes while Karen tossed her backpack over her shoulder.
"Sorry, Caleb, but I gotta go."
"No- wait!"
Already, those long legs of hers were striding away. Other people were crossing his field of vision, their sizable bulks and overblown statures cutting him off. He was about to lose her. Caleb called out in desperation.
"You were born, August 22, 1997! You have two brothers who drive you nuts, one older, one younger- Aaron can’t act his age, and Jacob can’t stop!”
The crowd was dispersing. Caleb saw that she had stopped. His heart lifted- had he gotten through to her?
“You have a tiny cluster of moles under your right armpit that look like Mickey Mouse.”
She had turned around. She was coming back towards him. Caleb closed his eyes and released a sigh of relief.
“You have an interest in-“
BOOM.
It happened in an instant. Caleb didn’t even see the motions. One second, he had been calming himself down, the next, his feet were off the ground, his back was against the lockers, and he was struggling to breathe. Karen had grabbed him around the neck, lifted him off the ground, and pinned him against the wall, all with one hand. Caleb was looking down her powerfully built arm at a face that was clearly not amused. Those strong, beautiful muscles of hers suddenly looked a lot less attractive and a lot more dangerous.
"Listen here, you creepy little midget. I don't know how you know those things, but if you've been stalking me, I suggest you drop it. If I catch you spying on me again, I'm going to make you pay for it, and I don't mean in cash."
And in another instant, her grip was released, and Caleb collapsed, confused and gasping, on the over-sized checkerboard tile floor. Karen quickly strode away through the emptied hallway without a backwards glance, leaving Caleb to his thoughts.
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